3:09 AM,
Apr. 27, 2013

Eighteenth-century English author and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft was a passionate advocate of women's rights.

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In her book of collected letters written while visiting Scandinavia to recover from her first suicide attempt, author and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft wrote:

"How elusive, perhaps the most so, are the plans of happiness founded on virtue and principle. ?

"Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose." ...